From The 2016 Crop Over Festival, a feast of Caribbean soca music
By BAZ DREISINGER From npr music Soca music fans subsist in a feast-or-famine world. Feasts come during Carnival — especially Trinidad Carnival, king of them all — when the exuberant, dance-driven tunes are released faster than soca icon Machel Montano…
This weird hexagon on Saturn has puzzled scientists for decades
By Ali Sundermier From Business Insider Thirty years ago, scientists discovered an intriguing structure on Saturn’s north pole. Nothing even resembling this structure has ever been seen on any other planet … in the entire universe. The six-sided structure, nicknamed…
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FCC program that gives tech to deaf, blind Americans is permanent
Jessica Conditt From engadget Plus, new rules increase the number of hearing-aid compatible wireless devices carriers and manufacturers have to offer. The FCC’s iCanConnect program, which provides communication equipment to low-income deaf and blind Americans, is now permanent after four years…
King Arthur’s birthplace may have just been found by archaeologists
By Robin Andrews From IFL Science King Arthur was a legendary British monarch who is said to have roamed the fields of England around 1,500 years ago. Although the wizard Merlin and the magical sword Excalibur were probably more fiction…
France Rouen: Fire kills 13 at birthday party in bar
From BBC Eyewitness: “We saw the fire, and the flames – the chairs flew out of the window” A fire that killed 13 people at a bar in the French city of Rouen was caused by someone carrying a birthday…
CSU’s latest hurricane outlook: Steady as she goes
By Bob Henson From Weather Underground There were no major adjustments in the August update to the 2016 CSU Atlantic hurricane outlook, issued on Thursday by Colorado State University. These outlooks are produced by Dr. Phil Klotzbach, who worked closely…
the Latvian aerobatic display team
Stunning air-to-air photos of the Latvian aerobatic display team By Jacek Siminski, The Aviationist From Business Insider The Baltic Bees Jet Team is an aerobatic team which took part in several events in Poland last year. Here are some amazing…
Hampton Creek sent out undercover US shoppers to buy up its Mayo, ask stores about it
By Laura Northrup From Consumerist Corporate drama and intrigue are not things that one normally associates with the condiment aisle at the grocery store, but that’s what has been happening since Hampton Creek’s eggless product Just Mayo hit the market…
NOAA: ‘The Blob’ had bigger impact on West Coast weather than El Niño
By Brooks Hays From UPI “We found that off California El Niño turned out to be much weaker than expected,” explained researcher Michael Jacox. SANTA CRUZ, Calif., July 7 (UPI) — Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say…
